[vpn-help] OSX Mountain Lion

[Harondel J. Sibble]

With neither of the 2 packages noted below, Shrew crashes on 10.7 in the same 
way :-(

On 9 Jul 2013 at 15:10, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:

> I am little confused with the OSX requirements.
> 
> I see this post for Matthew
> 
> https://lists.shrew.net/pipermail/vpn-help/2013-April/014278.html
> 
> which says QT is built in, however on a 10.6 machine installing the test 
> version noted, just crashes when run.
> 
> Also this link doesn't seem to work
> 
> http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-mac-opensource-4.7.1.dmg
> 
> nor does anything at http://get.qt.nokia.com
> 
> Is the Tun/Tap driver required?  Installing it on the same 10.6 machine does
> not stop Shrew from crashing. I'll try again on a 10.7 machine I have at
> hand 
> shortly.
> 
> On 28 May 2013 at 15:27, Damian ONeill wrote:
> 
> > Hi can someone provide instructions for uninstalling Shrew on OSX. 
> Since
> > installing this software (or its dependencies, QT or TunTap) my OSX
> internal
> > IPSec VPN software no longer works. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I followed the procedures below to install the software. 
> > 
> > 
> > There are two pre-requisites before running the native install package
> ...
> > 
> > 1) Install the LGPL Qt Framework for Mac OSX ...
> > 
> > http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-mac-opensource-4.7.1.dmg
> > 
> > 
> > 2) Install the current release of the TUN/TAP driver for Mac OSX ...
> > 
> > http://tuntaposx.sourceforge.net/download.xhtml
> > 
> > 
> > You can then proceed to install the Shrew Soft VPN client ...
> > www.shrew.net/download/vpn/vpn-client-install.dmg
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I have since removed tun tap with the following instructions. 
> > 
> > 
> > I want to remove the software from my computer. How do I do that?
> > 
> > Unfortunately, Apple's installer packages do not provide a way to remove
> > software. Therefore, you will need to delete the files manually. Just
> remove
> > the following directories (you need to do this with Administrator
> > privileges):
> > 
> > 	o /Library/Extensions/tap.kext
> > 	o /Library/Extensions/tun.kext
> > 	o /Library/StartupItems/tap
> > 	o /Library/StartupItems/tun
> > That's it!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Damian.
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> 
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